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Browsing named entities in Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing). You can also browse the collection for 1774 AD or search for 1774 AD in all documents.
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Posey, Thomas 1750-
Military officer; born in Virginia, July 9, 1750; removed to western Virginia in 1769, and was quartermaster to Lewis's division in Dunmore's army in 1774.
He raised a company in Virginia, and assisted in the defeat of Dunmore at Gwyn's Island.
He joined Washington, in New Jersey, early in 1777; was transferred to Morgan's rifle regiment, and with it did valuable service on Bemis's Heights and at Saratoga.
He commanded the regiment in the spring of 1778, and was finally placed in command of a battalion of Febiger's regiment, under Wayne, participating in the capture of Stony Point in July, 1779, where he was one of the first to enter the works.
Colonel Posey was at the surrender of Yorktown, and was afterwards with Wayne until the evacuation of Savannah, in 1782.
In February, 1793, he was made brigadier-general; settled in Kentucky; became State Senator and lieutenant-governor; was major-general of Kentucky levies in 1809; and United States Senator in 181
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Postal service, colonial (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Preble , Jedediah 1707 -1784 (search)
Preble, Jedediah 1707-1784
Military officer; born in Wells.
Me., in 1707; father of Edward Treble; was a sailor in early life, and in 1746 was a captain in a provincial regiment.
He was a lieutenant-colonel under General Winslow at the dispersion of the Acadians in 1755.
He rose to the rank of brigadier-general in 1759, and was twelve years a Representative.
In 1774 the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts made him a brigadier-general.
He was a State Senator in 1780, and judge of the Supreme Court.
He died in Portland, Me., March 11, 1784.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Prentiss , Charles 1774 -1820 (search)
Prentiss, Charles 1774-1820
Author; born in Reading, Mass., Oct. 8, 1774; graduated at Harvard College in 1795; and entered journalism.
His publications include Life of Robert treat Paine; Life of Gen. William Eaton; History of the United States; Trial of Calvin and Hopkins, etc. He died in Brimfield, Mass., Oct. 20, 1820.
Raleigh Tavern, the
In Williamsburg, Va., was, with its famous Apollo Room, the cradle of liberty in Virginia, as Faneuil Hall was in Massachusetts.
It was there that the patriots of the Virginia House of Burgesses met when Governor Dunmore dissolved that House in 1774; appointed delegates to the first Continental Congress; devised schemes for local self-government, and defied the power
Raleigh Tavern. of the royal representative.
The old tavern was yet standing when the Civil War broke out. In 1850, over the door of the main entrance to the building was a wooden bust of Sir Walter Raleigh.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Read , George 1733 -1798 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Restraining acts. (search)
Restraining acts.
Alarmed by the proceedings of the Continental Congress, late in 1774, and the movements in New England, the British ministry, early in 1775, took vigorous measures to assert its power in coercing the English-American colonies into submission.
Lord North, the premier, introduced into Parliament a bill to restrain the trade and commerce of the New England provinces to Great Britain, Ireland, and the British West Indies, and to prohibit them from carrying on any fishery on the banks of Newfoundland and other places, under certain conditions and for a limited time.
The bill was adopted by a large majority.
Soon afterwards, on being assured that the rest of the colonies upheld the New-Englanders in their rebellious proceedings, a second bill was passed, similar to the first, for restraining all the other provinces, excepting three, in their trade and commerce.
The three exempted colonies, regarding the exception as a bribe to induce them to oppose the measures o
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Revolutionary War, (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Rodney , Cesar 1728 -1784 (search)
Rodney, Cesar 1728-1784
A signer of the Declaration of Independence; born in Dover.
Del., Oct. 7, 1728.
At the age of twenty-eight he was appointed sheriff of Kent county, Del., and afterwards was a judge.
He represented his district in the legislature, and was sent to the Stamp Act Congress in 1765.
For several years he was speaker of the Delaware Assembly; was a member of the committee of correspondence, and of Congress in 1774 arid afterwards.
Made a brigadier-general, he was active in supplying Delaware troops to the army under Washington, and, early in 1777, was in command of the Delaware line in New Jersey.
From 1778 to 1782 he was president of his State.
He died in Dover, Del., June 29, 1784.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ross , George 1730 -1779 (search)
Ross, George 1730-1779
A signer of the Declaration of Independence; born in Newcastle, Del., in 1730; became a lawyer in Lancaster, Pa., in 1751; was a representative in the Pennsylvania Assembly in 1768– 70, and in 1774 was elected to the first Continental Congress.
He was a ready writer and a skilful committeeman.
A few months after he signed the Declaration of Independence ill-health compelled him to leave Congress (January, 1777). After the dissolution of the proprietary government in Pennsylvania a convention appointed him to draw up a Declaration of rights ; and a short time before his death he was made judge of the court of admiralty.
He died in Lancaster, Pa., in 177